A suprisingly good idea

[Yew]

cgi.ebay.co.uk/Copper-Single-Coil-Magnetic-Acoustic-Guitar-PickUp-NEW-/280653744671?pt=UK_Guitar_Accessories&rvr_id=223244914990




a way of mounting any single coil pickup in an accoustic, I was plesantly suprised with I saw the little bracket

[popsaka]

...and the little price...

[newey]

The problem with linking to an Ebay sale is that, when the sale's over, the link goes away.

As yours has done. Although the seller has several of these and has relisted others, so a link can be "clicked through"- for now.

Linking to the Seller's Ebay store works a bit better; best of all is finding the manufacturers website and linking to that.

Notice that this is a specialized single coil fitted into the harness/adapter, not just any old SC you have laying around. It is specified as a noise-free version, presumably a stacked-coil arrangement. It is also active/passive, with a preamp. And it requires some surgery to one's acoustic.

But I'm a big fan of mag pickups for acoustics. I have a soundhole-mounted DeArmand without pots, just has a cable coming off it, so no modification to the guitar is required. It works well and sounds pretty good, a tad noisy since it's a SC but nothing excessive.

Here's mine:

[ijustwannastrat]

I see nothing but feedback coming from this.... At least, on stage. Personally, I'm just going to bite my nails and take the plunge on a under the bridge piezo and drill a hole out of the rear of the guitar... Some day...

[4real]

I had/have a dimarzio version of the clip in thing for the longest time...it is effective in an electric kind of way...on closer inspection seemed to be a super distortion HB in it. Certainly at 'band volumes' it will feedback, but sometimes in a nice way...it is quite common for people to have used theses kinds of things along with a piezo or mic or just on their own. I'm thinking of digging mine out again as it can make a nice 'jazz box' kind of sound with the bronze strings and the acoustic can be a nice guitar to play for a lot of things.

Piezos can feedback as much if not more but do have perhaps a bit more of an acoustic sound. Years back I tried a 'bug' inside my old acoustic, didn't work out so well...but there are lots of alternatives about these days that could work ok. Piezos really do need a suitable preamp to run them and equing to get the best out of them.

I recently got a Behringer acoustic sim for about $40 which makes a fair piezo like acoustic sound from an electric, even if a bit hissy, but no feedback of mods. My BR-600 has some Boss acoustic sims in it that are extremely good and sound better than a lot of 'real' instruments and more acousticy than these clip in pickups generally do. So that would be another option.

Didn't john lennon sometimes play an epi or gibson with a mag pickup like this built in on a lot of the beatles stuff?

[irwired]

Here is the modern Gibson reproduction of John Lennon's early accoustic.
(Actual Size) ;D


A picture of John and the lads



and some market speak

Recreated by the luthiers at Gibson's Montana acoustic guitar facility in period-perfect detail, the 70th Anniversary John Lennon models are available in three distinct versions to represent the instrument at three periods in Lennon's life and career. The first, finished in Vintage Sunburst and limited to 500 guitars, represents the guitar as it was when Lennon first acquired it and used it on several famous Beatles recordings from 1963 to '64, including Please Please Me, With The Beatles and A Hard Day's Night. Additional specs of the 70th Anniversary John Lennon J-160VS include a 70th Anniversary John Lennon MOP signature on the headstock, 1960's laminated Sitka Spruce Top, mahogany back and sides, the classic vintage Sunburst lacquer finish, Jumbo 1960's Frets, Gibson authentic P-90 pickups, a historic adjustable bridge and a 70th Anniversary MOP engraved 12th Fret birthdate of John Lennon. MSRP is $4,728 USD.

Cheers

Wirey